Foster Care Training

Online Class

This training is designed to present and consider the impact of multiple forms of trauma and oppression on our youth and their families and communities as well as build shared language and commitment to implementing and sustaining trauma-informed, culturally-grounded healing policies and practices. The training is geared for service providers and aims to provide new insights into the dynamic and systemic impact of violence on individual and community development, the impacts of personal and collective trauma on adolescent mental health, and strengthen successful clinical and organizational practices for serving trauma-exposed youth and communities.

The training builds on the efforts and findings from a community-grounded, participatory research process that engaged over 450 youth to understand with more sensitivity, clarity, and empathy the lived experiences of young people burdened with trauma exposure, marginalization, and histories of oppression. The training highlights the needs and insights that youth shared to inform more effective community supports and services, as well as more empathetic and empowering systems, policies, practices, and investments that serve youth and families in the Bay Area.